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Before You Know It

Trying to learn a new language can be tedious and sometimes difficult but very rewarding.  Whether you’re trying to learn enough to get by in another country for your upcoming vacation or learning to become fluent, BYKI (Before You Know It) language software is a great resource.  You can download BYKI Lite, available for 64 languages, at NO COST.  If you want more than the 20 or so language lists that come with the free version you can download the premier version for around $50.  This program makes it easy to learn by using flash cards, allowing you the option to slow down the pronunciation (just click on the turtle) and by making you interactively recall the information in multiple formats.  I recently used the program to learn Malay to get around on my vacation and I loved it.  You could also use the program to teach your young child English.  www.byki.com

800 Number Help

Need to actually talk to a person, but all you can find is an email or website address?  Visit www.hardtofind800numbers.com where you can find billing and customer service numbers for a range of companies including amazon.com and Ebay. 

Trial Run

Do you get up every morning looking forward to the work day because you are doing a job that you love?  Unfortunately, most of us aren’t doing a job that we are passionate about.  There’s a variety of reasons ~ we don’t yet know what that passion is, we don’t know how to get started, or we’re not even sure what it takes.  Vocation Vacations “offers you the opportunity to explore that ‘road not taken.’”  You will spend one to three days with a mentor trying out your dream job.  If the job really is your dream come true you will learn what it takes to turn that job into your full time career.  If it turns out your dream job is not all that you imagined it to be you’ll be able to set new goals without the regret.  There are currently over 125 jobs available to try and 24 in the making.  Don’t think your dream job is on the list?  Check out the website at www.vocationvacations.com and you’ll be amazed at the diversity of jobs available to try.

Ask for a Vocation Vacation for the holidays or give it as a gift – Dream Job gift certificates are available.

Reader Recommendation

The holiday season is upon us along with all of the holiday cooking.  Eileen recommends using www.allrecipes.com where you can enter the number of people you will be serving and the website automatically recalculates the recipe ingredient measurements for you.  No more guess-timating.  Thank you Eileen‼ 

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